The original Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1, is an iconic piece of computing history, so big it had a ring of padded seats around which engineers could sit and contemplate esoteric questions of life ...

The Cray-1, released in 1976, was one of the most successful supercomputers of all time. The Freon-cooled computer was clocked at a heady 80MHz and capable of up to 250 megaflops -- much more than any ...

The original Cray-1 supercomputer, released in 1976. (Courtesy: Cray) Cray will try and reinvent itself for the cloud era with a new product that promises “supercomputing as a service.” Cray, based in ...

Cray-1 was a departure from my normal case building materials in that I mainly used plywood, masonite and synthetic leather. I've built systems out of mahogany, cherry, canary wood, maple, walnut and ...

The Cray-1 was the fastest supercomputer in 1976. Today, even the iPad dwarfs its humble 133 megaflops and a fast PC can easily surpass 100 gigaflops. This Cray-1 replica houses two PCs, but it looks ...

California-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has agreed to buy Midwest-born supercomputer maker Cray Inc. in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion as the firm works to become more competitive in high ...

Supercomputers these days are usually pretty bland affairs. Yes they're powerful - considerably more so than those produced in the 1970's by the likes of Cray Research but they're not much to look at.

Editor’s Note: This article is reproduced from Xcell Journal with the kind permission of Xilinx. The year was 1976. Disco was still popular, the Cold War was in full swing and I wouldn’t even be born ...

Cray Research Inc. introduced the Cray-2S computer systems, a new range of Cray-2 supercomputers that offer overall system performance up to 40 percent greater than the original Cray-2 system. The ...

It's absolutely astonishing how fast computer technology has progressed in the last 30 years. "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt on ...